Outlet channel Shaft #1, looking west, show recent rip rapping in washout area, West Boylston, Mass., Nov. 14, 1944

Outlet channel Shaft #1, looking west, show recent rip rapping in washout area, West Boylston, Mass., Nov. 14, 1944

Item Information

Title:
Outlet channel Shaft #1, looking west, show recent rip rapping in washout area, West Boylston, Mass., Nov. 14, 1944
Sponsor:
Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission
Photographer:
Snow, Russell, 1902-1969
Date:
November 14, 1944
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
Massachusetts Archives
Collection (local):
Massachusetts. Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission, Quabbin Reservoir, Photographs of Real Estate Takings
Subjects:
waterworks
aqueducts
reservoirs (water distribution structures)
engineering
dams (hydraulic structures)
Places:
Massachusetts > Worcester (county) > West Boylston
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 format)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/jh346c46c
Terms of Use:
No Copyright - United States
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Print in album volume MDWSC, Real Estate, Ware River Watershed Protection, Volume 38, Chief Engineer set
See W-1854; see Quinapoxet Dam in background; from the 1940-1945 MDWSC Annual Report (p. 41): "The entire Wachusett Outlet Works were unwatered October 28 to November 18, 1944, for the first time since the original construction, and minor repairs made to the eroded channel downstream from the control gates."
Notes (acquisition):
Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission; Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
Accession #:
EN4.06/1335x.MDWSC.RealEstate.W1861.Chief.Engineer
Identifier:
MDWSC_RE_W1861_CE